Interview With Award Winners From ACLM 2015, Nashville, Tennessee

摘要

Interview With John Kelly, MD, MPH Q: What was the inciting event that led you to start the American College of Lifestyle Medicine? A: Medicine was a "second career" for me (started medical school at 48 years), and I knew I wanted to be a change agent in getting medicine more focused on addressing the (lifestyle) causes of disease than merely treating the major symptoms. As a medical student, I had established 2 elective rotations in Lifestyle Medicine and completed them both. As a resident, I conducted a month-long elective collecting data from 5 lifestyle intervention centers around the United States and writing a manuscript showing the effectiveness of lifestyle change to reverse disease. By the time I finished residency, I was certain the evidence was more than adequate and that we needed to bring the lifestyle medicine (LM) medical community together so we could have a "louder voice" and more influence.